Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!